1 25 13 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/421077476519612d6cdf2f14e5bb2575.pdf 0034d7dad20f14c41702bca8e40161c7 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Post Office Cairo Ill Dec 23 1862 Dear Gov I should have written you some time since but have been quite unwell since received your last. I am now so as to be at the office but not able to do much. I have no more places vacant at present, but will let you know if any occur. Mr Wynans has arrived and i think when schooled a little in the business will be a good clerk. Now gov I have never asked you for an office since you have had so many to give, but now I want one, and I know if you have not already filled the place you will grant it me at once for you know my qualifications for the place are unsurpassed if they are equaled in the State. I want to be appointed Chief of Staff with the Rank of Col and placed in command of your Damning Commitee during the coming legislature. I think I could execute your orders to your entire satisfaction and to the great annoyance of the Locofocoes generally. Will you [send?] me the commission. Don't want any salary, I only want to damn democrats. We have nothing of importance here since the raid of the rebs in West Tenn. Your friend D L Linegar Hon Rich. Yates <hr /> D.L. Linegar Cairo Dec 23rd 62 Has no more places at present. Mr. Wynans has arrived. Will make good clerk when schooled a little. Has never asked for office but wants now to be appointed "Chief of Staff with rank of Col. and be placed in command of the "Damning Committee" during the session of the legislature. Thinks himself well qualified to "damn" "Locofocoes" Wants no salary only wants to "damn" democrats. File Private Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource D. L. Linegar to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-12-23 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509871 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Post Office Cairo Ill Dec 23 1862 Dear Gov I should have written you some time since but have been quite unwell since received your last. I am now so as to be at the office but not able to do much. I have no more places vacant at present, but will let you know if any occur. Mr Wynans has arrived and i think when schooled a little in the business will be a good clerk. Now gov I have never asked you for an office since you have had so many to give, but now I want one, and I know if you have not already filled the place you will grant it me at once for you know my qualifications for the place are unsurpassed if they are equaled in the State. I want to be appointed Chief of Staff with the Rank of Col and placed in command of your Damning Commitee during the coming legislature. I think I could execute your orders to your entire satisfaction and to the great annoyance of the Locofocoes generally. Will you [send?] me the commission. Don't want any salary, I only want to damn democrats. We have nothing of importance here since the raid of the rebs in West Tenn. Your friend D L Linegar Hon Rich. Yates <hr /> D.L. Linegar Cairo Dec 23rd 62 Has no more places at present. Mr. Wynans has arrived. Will make good clerk when schooled a little. Has never asked for office but wants now to be appointed "Chief of Staff with rank of Col. and be placed in command of the "Damning Committee" during the session of the legislature. Thinks himself well qualified to "damn" "Locofocoes" Wants no salary only wants to "damn" democrats. File Private Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/417681fc624f6fdd27e143a7c2cb512b.pdf be2f5363b167defe6aa5cdd654d5fbea Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Copy Head Qrs. Right Wing College Hill Dec. 9, 1862. Gen'l. Grant Comd'g. 13th Army Corps, Oxford Miss. Dear General, Col. Grierson is about to start to Helena with your despatches, and I also, toward Memphis. When he returns, he will report to you in person. Col. Grierson has been with me all summer, and I have repeatedly written to you and spoken in his praise. He is the best cavalry officer I have yet had. I commend him specially to your consideration. He has already had assigned to him a Brigade, but the Cavalry has been so busy, that he has not yet had his command. I ask for him, anything you can do for his benefit and the good of the service. I know that you will soon appreciate his merits. Yours Truly W. T. Sherman Maj. Gen'l. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William Tecumseh Sherman to Ulysses S. Grant Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-12-09 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509870 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource eng Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Copy Head Qrs. Right Wing College Hill Dec. 9, 1862. Gen'l. Grant Comd'g. 13th Army Corps, Oxford Miss. Dear General, Col. Grierson is about to start to Helena with your despatches, and I also, toward Memphis. When he returns, he will report to you in person. Col. Grierson has been with me all summer, and I have repeatedly written to you and spoken in his praise. He is the best cavalry officer I have yet had. I commend him specially to your consideration. He has already had assigned to him a Brigade, but the Cavalry has been so busy, that he has not yet had his command. I ask for him, anything you can do for his benefit and the good of the service. I know that you will soon appreciate his merits. Yours Truly W. T. Sherman Maj. Gen'l. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/b6807803fbdd25fa2066e8990012dcfc.pdf 1a4d3df5c8dc994e7e3de227ffcd72d3 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Ottawa Dec 5th 1862 Dear Governor, Not one word has ever passed between us in regard to your election to the United States Senate. Nor was such a thing necessary. I am sound and ever have been, and I am now anxious to know if there is any chance for you, also what if anything I can do in this, or any other part of the State in your behalf, either in the use of time influences money or anything else. If so let me know without delay. I am for you 1st & last, in time past & yes to come aye through the fogs. even which settle upon & over the surburbs of Hell. Please communicate with me if necessary in any respect. Let me know what if anything you want me to do in other words put me fully in the premises. As ever your true friend W. Bushnell <hr /> W. Bushnell. Ottawa Dec 5.62. Private letter to Gov Yates concerning U. S. Senatorship Proffers services &c in any way, desires Gov's views on the subject. "Private" Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource W. Bushnell to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-12-05 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509869 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Ottawa Dec 5th 1862 Dear Governor, Not one word has ever passed between us in regard to your election to the United States Senate. Nor was such a thing necessary. I am sound and ever have been, and I am now anxious to know if there is any chance for you, also what if anything I can do in this, or any other part of the State in your behalf, either in the use of time influences money or anything else. If so let me know without delay. I am for you 1st & last, in time past & yes to come aye through the fogs. even which settle upon & over the surburbs of Hell. Please communicate with me if necessary in any respect. Let me know what if anything you want me to do in other words put me fully in the premises. As ever your true friend W. Bushnell <hr /> W. Bushnell. Ottawa Dec 5.62. Private letter to Gov Yates concerning U. S. Senatorship Proffers services &c in any way, desires Gov's views on the subject. "Private" Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/8b3245e2b65191e39dd6c64f1d327e6d.pdf a06ac7e44d24b2588a055fb42ad6d89d Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jeffersonville Wayne Co Ills Nov 6 1862 Honorable R Yates Dear Sir A short time since my Self and two of my neighbours went to Cairo as we understood by invitation of General government and from the contriband agent obtained an order to this provost Martial and obtained his permit to remove from Cairo 7 contrabands which we brot home as we understand under the directions and in Accordance with the wishes of our government thinking that by So doing we were sustaining our government in a legitimaty way and also befriending the negro by taking them a way from their lothsome quarters and also hoping to help our Selves if we could from their Services which Services we stand in great need of as the army has made such a heavy draft on us that we cannot do the work nessary to be done--and the consequence is that in stead of having our corn cut and saved it is literally all lost and and much more than half the amount of wheat put out that would have been had we had the usual amount of help and if we are not permitted to help our Selves by the contrabands and what ever the other help may be offered we will inevetly go down and evry thing else will follow. <hr /> But will we be permitted to keep them and be sustained in carrying out the act of government that put us in posession of them is the great and important question to tried (and that Just now) for we are threaned with violence of the most ferocious kind in all forms by the tories cicesionists, Rebels and Sympathize all combined in one does not half way portray their infamy who cling to the constitution and laws of Illinois as the supreme law of the land and will not hear to any thing like paramount athority in general government but damming the goverment the army the people the governors and Evry thing Else that there is in support of our National cause and made men Jubilent by the result of their Success at the recent Elections which will also stiffen the backbone of the Rebellion in the South. I have endovoured to lay our case before you thus plain and in a brief and simple manner for we no not what hour the mob may be on us and the poor contrabands and implore your immediate interferance in our behalf if it is within your legitamate province. If not lay our case befor goverment for help we must have or be crushed by the vilest Enemies of God and man fear no results for you and General Goverment will be Sustained by all true and genuine union men in regard to contrabands in any and evry legitemate way towards the supression of the Reblion Write Soon, Yours in cencerity John Moore <hr /> Ans Nov. 12 62 John Moore Jeffersonville Wayne Co. Nov 6 62 Took some negroes from Cairo to his home, to save his crops. Is threatened by the Secesh. in his neighoorhood. Wants to know if he will be protected. Apply to proper authorities of his Co. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Moore to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-11-06 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509868 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jeffersonville Wayne Co Ills Nov 6 1862 Honorable R Yates Dear Sir A short time since my Self and two of my neighbours went to Cairo as we understood by invitation of General government and from the contriband agent obtained an order to this provost Martial and obtained his permit to remove from Cairo 7 contrabands which we brot home as we understand under the directions and in Accordance with the wishes of our government thinking that by So doing we were sustaining our government in a legitimaty way and also befriending the negro by taking them a way from their lothsome quarters and also hoping to help our Selves if we could from their Services which Services we stand in great need of as the army has made such a heavy draft on us that we cannot do the work nessary to be done--and the consequence is that in stead of having our corn cut and saved it is literally all lost and and much more than half the amount of wheat put out that would have been had we had the usual amount of help and if we are not permitted to help our Selves by the contrabands and what ever the other help may be offered we will inevetly go down and evry thing else will follow. <hr /> But will we be permitted to keep them and be sustained in carrying out the act of government that put us in posession of them is the great and important question to tried (and that Just now) for we are threaned with violence of the most ferocious kind in all forms by the tories cicesionists, Rebels and Sympathize all combined in one does not half way portray their infamy who cling to the constitution and laws of Illinois as the supreme law of the land and will not hear to any thing like paramount athority in general government but damming the goverment the army the people the governors and Evry thing Else that there is in support of our National cause and made men Jubilent by the result of their Success at the recent Elections which will also stiffen the backbone of the Rebellion in the South. I have endovoured to lay our case before you thus plain and in a brief and simple manner for we no not what hour the mob may be on us and the poor contrabands and implore your immediate interferance in our behalf if it is within your legitamate province. If not lay our case befor goverment for help we must have or be crushed by the vilest Enemies of God and man fear no results for you and General Goverment will be Sustained by all true and genuine union men in regard to contrabands in any and evry legitemate way towards the supression of the Reblion Write Soon, Yours in cencerity John Moore <hr /> Ans Nov. 12 62 John Moore Jeffersonville Wayne Co. Nov 6 62 Took some negroes from Cairo to his home, to save his crops. Is threatened by the Secesh. in his neighoorhood. Wants to know if he will be protected. Apply to proper authorities of his Co. Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/75b79cba6458d0d2a338ad86c286b7cc.pdf 10a6de3c755f0a00f542fa3f3e99f76d Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Galesburg Oct 12th 1862 8am Dear Governor I would very respectfully, in compliance with your request, recommend John Bulcock of Monmouth as a member of your staff, in Warren county. Mr B. is all right. Is in our church one of the most prominent in that county and can render you service in more ways than one I recommended Charles Chandler of Macomb for McDonough county. When I saw you last & his name placed on this list. If not too much trouble I would like to have the above commissions made out & sent to me. "No draft no Illinois." All honor to our noble state and to her young Governor Governor Yates Truly yours Clark E Carr <hr /> Carr, Clark E Governor's Staff Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clark E. Carr to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-12 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509867 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Galesburg Oct 12th 1862 8am Dear Governor I would very respectfully, in compliance with your request, recommend John Bulcock of Monmouth as a member of your staff, in Warren county. Mr B. is all right. Is in our church one of the most prominent in that county and can render you service in more ways than one I recommended Charles Chandler of Macomb for McDonough county. When I saw you last & his name placed on this list. If not too much trouble I would like to have the above commissions made out & sent to me. "No draft no Illinois." All honor to our noble state and to her young Governor Governor Yates Truly yours Clark E Carr <hr /> Carr, Clark E Governor's Staff Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/181f0c77e8784d1a4bdcb4f182b75423.pdf 7513497b2da8d8560760b5509af83587 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Carlinville Ills Oct 10/62 Richd Yates Gov. Dear Sir Mrs Palmer wife of Gen. John M Palmer has just received a letter from G. C. Palmer brother of the Gen. who has lived for the past 12 years at Alexandria La. but now at Humbolt Kansas having fled from his home in La leaving his family to avoid the conscription act, The following is an exact copy from said letter letter dated Sept 29th 1862 "There is one matter I should like to communicate to the authorities at Washington and that is this if they --- would place some gunboats near Natchez Miss, they would capture if not cut off the rebel army's supply of [Beeves?] which is crossing there by thousands every week if you see proper to communicate this you can do so but you must in haste there will be a grand rush there in Nov." In an other portion the following "If I was not so fatigued I could write many things of interest to you concerning matters & things in the south but I will briefly state that things are nearly at a crisis <hr /> this winter will be the last great struggle after that she is done they have now got every man in the service that is capable of bearing arms there is no drafting but a regular swoop of every thing they call it conscription" I would of sent you the letter but Mrs Palmer desires to send it to the Gen, I know nothing of the of the true position of G. C. Palmer nor does any one [here?], he is known here to be a brother of John M Palmer having left here some 12 or 13 years ago Yours [illegible] Geo W Hamilton <hr /> Geo W Hamilton Carlinville Oct 10/62 G C Palmer, brother of the Genl. fled from Louisiana, is now at Humboldt Kansas and gives some valuable items in the within, Place gunboats at or near Natchez in doing so it would cut of the Rebel Supply's which are coming there by thousands Every week Must be done quickly will be a rush in Nov File Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George W. Hamilton to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-10 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509866 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Carlinville Ills Oct 10/62 Richd Yates Gov. Dear Sir Mrs Palmer wife of Gen. John M Palmer has just received a letter from G. C. Palmer brother of the Gen. who has lived for the past 12 years at Alexandria La. but now at Humbolt Kansas having fled from his home in La leaving his family to avoid the conscription act, The following is an exact copy from said letter letter dated Sept 29th 1862 "There is one matter I should like to communicate to the authorities at Washington and that is this if they --- would place some gunboats near Natchez Miss, they would capture if not cut off the rebel army's supply of [Beeves?] which is crossing there by thousands every week if you see proper to communicate this you can do so but you must in haste there will be a grand rush there in Nov." In an other portion the following "If I was not so fatigued I could write many things of interest to you concerning matters & things in the south but I will briefly state that things are nearly at a crisis <hr /> this winter will be the last great struggle after that she is done they have now got every man in the service that is capable of bearing arms there is no drafting but a regular swoop of every thing they call it conscription" I would of sent you the letter but Mrs Palmer desires to send it to the Gen, I know nothing of the of the true position of G. C. Palmer nor does any one [here?], he is known here to be a brother of John M Palmer having left here some 12 or 13 years ago Yours [illegible] Geo W Hamilton <hr /> Geo W Hamilton Carlinville Oct 10/62 G C Palmer, brother of the Genl. fled from Louisiana, is now at Humboldt Kansas and gives some valuable items in the within, Place gunboats at or near Natchez in doing so it would cut of the Rebel Supply's which are coming there by thousands Every week Must be done quickly will be a rush in Nov File Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/2a4b2b7eee9be09cd4eb3ab60d232a9e.pdf 6e1ec52263c9f53bb66df1273fbaaaa1 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. St Paul. Sept 21. 62 My dear Governor. This letter will be handed to you by Genl Roberts an old and distinguished officer in the Army who served with me throughout the Virginia Campaign & who can tell as much of that sad & shameful story as will be useful to you in your deliberations. I will not therefore go into details farther than to express to you my convictions that the country, (by which I mean our Institutions) is in more danger of destruction if MClellan be successful in his present campaign than if he be defeated. Unless you had been present in Washington and had seen & knew what I did, you can scarcely realize the condition of things. The Pretorian system is as fully developed and in as active operation in Washington as it ever was in ancient Rome. To day the thirty or forty officers who clamor about the White House of disaffection in the Army only seek the removal of one General and the replacement of another, but with success in their clamor <hr /> the demands will not be slow to increase in extent & importance & under the present system and practice as soon as they demand the removal of Lincoln and the substitution of some one else whether citizen or soldier he cannot in view of his antecedent practice refuse to abdicate & I doubt if he would do so. Already this Potomac Army clique talk openly of Lincoln's weakness & the necessity of replacing him by some stronger man of [shooting?] Wilson, Sumner Chase &c & making but one State of New England &c &c. You would be surprised & alarmed to see how openly these things are talked of by the very officers of the Potomac Army who now by their mutinous clamor control the administration. Of my own case I have little to say. Time will correct in the public mind all error & the shameful story of neglect, & abandonment by my manifest to the country. You have doubtless read the brief official report I made which was published without my knowledge or consent. You do not know however that every statement contained in it is substantiated by documents attached to the report so that no part of it rests on my authority alone. I have only this to say <hr /> about it. Either what I state is true or it is false. If true every officer implicated from McClellan down should be shot. If false I should be subjected to the same penalty. This is the bare and naked issue I present & am ready and anxious to stand or fall by. Three hours would enable the Govt. to ascertain the facts. I urge & have urged with persistent energy the investigation. It is resisted and successfully for the present, by those charged with the crime. The public without farther examination can readily judge from this simple state of the case where the [illegible] lies & who fear the truth. The truth is known to the Govt. I say this knowing it. Mr Lincoln himself told me that he knew several days before hand from dispatches from Fitz John Porter to McClellan, which were intercepted at the War Dept that Porter was sure to fail me. He wished to take him from the Rolls of the Army but [could?] not I suppose. Letters of the highest commendation from the Sec of War and Genl Halleck are in my possession assuring me that I had done all that mortal man could do & expressing implicit confidence in me. I declined <hr /> to serve longer with that army & told Mr Lincoln as I also did the Sec of War & Genl Halleck that I had not the slightest confidence in the ability or trustworthiness of McClellan or many of his Generals. That they would at any time betray the country & abandon their comrades in the face of the enemy where their own personal purposes were to be served. Mr Lincoln and the War Dept. know well McClellans's atrocious withholding of troops & supplies and were very indignant about it to the extent of deciding that he should never have a command again. Of this you can inform yourself through almost any member of the Cabinet, Seward & Blair excepted. The clamor of a certain faction of officers allied to McClellan; fortunes induced the President to believe that the Potomac Army would only serve under McClellan & notwithstanding the atrocious facts charged against him & others & which the President knows to be true, he was placed in command & the other officers continued in their [illegible] without the knowledge of his Cabinet & against their deliberate action of only a day previous. These are facts easily verified <hr /> They show you what sort of action prevails & what we are to expect. My error has been (viewed by McClellan & his followers, the semi treasonable papers & people of this country) that I wished in [earnest?] & sincerity of purpose to make war upon the Rebels. I was from the west and an interloper in the Army of the Potomac neither to be bribed nor frightened & I must if possible be ruined. I looked to the West where I have served honorably to protect me from an infamous conspiracy as dangerous to our liberties as to my own reputation. I shall face the investigation if possible but under present circumstances I doubt whether it will ever be made. I do not venture to suggest what your action in the meeting you are about to hold at Altoona should be. I only express to you my firm conviction that unless the present system with its leaders be swept away & the Administration relieved from the Pretorian control which now dominates over it our Government is not worth a day's purchase. <hr /> A man has read History in vain who does not know that it is impossible to encamp a great army around the capital of a nation, & maintain it there a whole year in [illegible], without corrupting the Army as well as the Government. Whether the persistent resolution with which the commander of the Army of the Potomac refused to advance against a greatly inferior enemy badly posted, & the determination with which that Army was held back in the force of the powerful influences urging its action were based upon knowledge of this fact remains a matter of opinion, but that the effect of alienating this Army from the people of the country, weakening if not destroying all sympathy & affiliation between it and the States which put it into the field, quenching all its enthusiasm & educating it to fight for individuals & not for principles or for Government, has been fully accomplished, no man who has served with the Army of the Potomac can fail to see, with apprehension and sorrow. The very organization of this Army was made with such a view & it is openly proclaimed by those who effected it, that it was designed to put an end to all State notions or local ties & to make a consolidated Army aside from popular influence or from local <hr /> responsibility. You will remember that the first proposition was to make a "Grand National Union Army" where States should not appear in the organization. That instead of the 10th Regt from Illinois we should have the 100th U.S. Infantry, instead of the 16th Massachusetts we should have then 90th U.S. Infantry &c. & that the promotions should be made as in the regular Army. By this time if such an organization had been adopted, we should have had a regiment from Illinois commanded by a Col (perhaps) from New Jersey, a Lieut Col. from Maine, a Major from Missouri & Captains & Lieutenants from every State of the Union. All local ties and attachments, all responsibility of every kind to the people who sent them forth would have been lost & we should now have had a great machine subject only to the order of its Commander. Fortunately & wisely Congress refused its assent but the nearest approach has been made to such an organization that was possible. It is & has been a fixed rule in the Potomac Army not to put two regiments from the same state into one Brigade so that as <hr /> that army now stands the regiments composing it have completely lost their identity. They belong not to Massachusetts or Illinois or Ohio but to the 1st Brigade, of the 2nd Division, of the 5th Army Corps. It is the reputation of a certain Brigade made up from every where that they fight, not for the State or the community which sent them to the field. Once destroy the local ties & attachments of the members of any military force & the sense of responsibility for their action to their friends & neighbors and you have taken the first step (and it is a long one) towards consolidation under military rule. The centrifugal force which exists such consolidation is to be found in the State pride, the local attachments & the influences of friends & home. You know that in the West we have understood and acted upon this principle. Whether the persistence with which the opposite course has been insisted on by the military authorities in the Potomac, has been an error of judgement or the result of well understood purpose, every man is at liberty to think as he pleases. Whatever the intention the result has been accomplished and we see in <hr /> the history of the past few weeks, and the action of the Administration under Military clamor the worst consequences of such a State of things. Whether it has been deliberately planned or not, it must be controlled or destroyed now or evil days are upon us. Let me be distinctly understood. Our Government and our Institutions must at all hazards be preserved & this Rebellion put down. No half way measures will answer for this purpose. We must make war, with this sole & only purpose & we must use all means, whether black or white to accomplish this object. War means desolation and death, and it is neither humanity nor wisdom to carry it as upon any other theory. The more bitter it is made to the delinquents the sooner it will end. Whilst the laws of war are to be carefully & strictly observed, they surely need no lenient modifications when we [illegible] or traitors who seek to destroy our Government & plunge millions of our people unto all the horrors of anarchy and political disintegration. Every thing that stands in the <hr /> way of such a war must be set aside or [overturned?]. We must preserve the Govt. pure and undefiled or we are lost as a people. It is not alone the rebels in arms we are to contend against. We must also meet and overcome thousands of enemies among ourselves. We must detect & check at the very outset abuses which arise necessarily under such a state of things as now exists in this country. Among our most fearful dangers is the rapid [illegible] of the military [power?], and as thousands of instances in History have made manifest to us, the gradual submission of our civil Government, by undue influence of military factions & leaders. The continuance of the influence which now prevails at Washington threatens our Government far more than the Rebels in arms. It is the [illegible] [dangers?] that it represents the interest in this country most favorable to Southern traitors. It represents inaction or war so mild & peaceable as not to merit the name. It represents the expenditure of untold wealth, & the indefinite prolongation of hostilities. With these follow necessarily increased control of the <hr /> military over the Civil Departments, increased separation from their homes & home feelings and influences of the great hosts of men sent forth to fight for our Government; increased danger of the utter demoralization of our people and finally danger if not certainly of the final overthrow of our liberties by the very armies we marshalled for their defense. We must make, quick vigorous & aggressive war upon the Enemy, equally speedy & vigorous war upon the Pretorian factions which now threaten our destruction by undermining and corrupting the Administration of the Government. Forever come & destroy utterly the malign military influences which war render honor & duty a [illegible] & reproach, which paralyze the army of the Patriotic soldier, which seek personal & not national ends, which point plainly in every action to concession & not punishment, should be the first and great mission of your convention. The people are right and true. The Administration designs to be so but is controlled through fear of the fall of the Capital, by influences which threaten to withdraw support unless their clamors <hr /> are complied with. In what respect does our present condition differ from the signs which have always preceded the dissolution of a Govt.? How long will it be before the military factions (as in a thousand past instances in History) demand another ruler and then another until the seat of Washington shall be occupied by a military despot. Or by a creature of the military power. It is against this danger we now need most protection. The occurrences of the past few weeks must make the danger plain to you. A [man?] high [illegible] & command, charged with offences the basest the most criminal and most dangerous to his country, whose crime if not fully known, in all its enormity, is fully believed by the Administration cannot be tried is removed from his command as consequence of threats of the military factions in his interest, not to fight for the Government in its time of danger. This is our enemy & upon this enemy first of all I urge you to war to the death. If it be not destroyed before it is too strong our Government and our liberties are gone from us for ever. Very truly yours Jno Pope Hon Richard Yates Gov of Ills. <hr /> Maj. Genl. John Pope St. Paul. Sept. 21 - 62 Private Important! <hr /> State of Illinois Executive Department Springfield 186__ Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John S. Pope to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-09-21 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509865 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. St Paul. Sept 21. 62 My dear Governor. This letter will be handed to you by Genl Roberts an old and distinguished officer in the Army who served with me throughout the Virginia Campaign & who can tell as much of that sad & shameful story as will be useful to you in your deliberations. I will not therefore go into details farther than to express to you my convictions that the country, (by which I mean our Institutions) is in more danger of destruction if MClellan be successful in his present campaign than if he be defeated. Unless you had been present in Washington and had seen & knew what I did, you can scarcely realize the condition of things. The Pretorian system is as fully developed and in as active operation in Washington as it ever was in ancient Rome. To day the thirty or forty officers who clamor about the White House of disaffection in the Army only seek the removal of one General and the replacement of another, but with success in their clamor <hr /> the demands will not be slow to increase in extent & importance & under the present system and practice as soon as they demand the removal of Lincoln and the substitution of some one else whether citizen or soldier he cannot in view of his antecedent practice refuse to abdicate & I doubt if he would do so. Already this Potomac Army clique talk openly of Lincoln's weakness & the necessity of replacing him by some stronger man of [shooting?] Wilson, Sumner Chase &c & making but one State of New England &c &c. You would be surprised & alarmed to see how openly these things are talked of by the very officers of the Potomac Army who now by their mutinous clamor control the administration. Of my own case I have little to say. Time will correct in the public mind all error & the shameful story of neglect, & abandonment by my manifest to the country. You have doubtless read the brief official report I made which was published without my knowledge or consent. You do not know however that every statement contained in it is substantiated by documents attached to the report so that no part of it rests on my authority alone. I have only this to say <hr /> about it. Either what I state is true or it is false. If true every officer implicated from McClellan down should be shot. If false I should be subjected to the same penalty. This is the bare and naked issue I present & am ready and anxious to stand or fall by. Three hours would enable the Govt. to ascertain the facts. I urge & have urged with persistent energy the investigation. It is resisted and successfully for the present, by those charged with the crime. The public without farther examination can readily judge from this simple state of the case where the [illegible] lies & who fear the truth. The truth is known to the Govt. I say this knowing it. Mr Lincoln himself told me that he knew several days before hand from dispatches from Fitz John Porter to McClellan, which were intercepted at the War Dept that Porter was sure to fail me. He wished to take him from the Rolls of the Army but [could?] not I suppose. Letters of the highest commendation from the Sec of War and Genl Halleck are in my possession assuring me that I had done all that mortal man could do & expressing implicit confidence in me. I declined <hr /> to serve longer with that army & told Mr Lincoln as I also did the Sec of War & Genl Halleck that I had not the slightest confidence in the ability or trustworthiness of McClellan or many of his Generals. That they would at any time betray the country & abandon their comrades in the face of the enemy where their own personal purposes were to be served. Mr Lincoln and the War Dept. know well McClellans's atrocious withholding of troops & supplies and were very indignant about it to the extent of deciding that he should never have a command again. Of this you can inform yourself through almost any member of the Cabinet, Seward & Blair excepted. The clamor of a certain faction of officers allied to McClellan; fortunes induced the President to believe that the Potomac Army would only serve under McClellan & notwithstanding the atrocious facts charged against him & others & which the President knows to be true, he was placed in command & the other officers continued in their [illegible] without the knowledge of his Cabinet & against their deliberate action of only a day previous. These are facts easily verified <hr /> They show you what sort of action prevails & what we are to expect. My error has been (viewed by McClellan & his followers, the semi treasonable papers & people of this country) that I wished in [earnest?] & sincerity of purpose to make war upon the Rebels. I was from the west and an interloper in the Army of the Potomac neither to be bribed nor frightened & I must if possible be ruined. I looked to the West where I have served honorably to protect me from an infamous conspiracy as dangerous to our liberties as to my own reputation. I shall face the investigation if possible but under present circumstances I doubt whether it will ever be made. I do not venture to suggest what your action in the meeting you are about to hold at Altoona should be. I only express to you my firm conviction that unless the present system with its leaders be swept away & the Administration relieved from the Pretorian control which now dominates over it our Government is not worth a day's purchase. <hr /> A man has read History in vain who does not know that it is impossible to encamp a great army around the capital of a nation, & maintain it there a whole year in [illegible], without corrupting the Army as well as the Government. Whether the persistent resolution with which the commander of the Army of the Potomac refused to advance against a greatly inferior enemy badly posted, & the determination with which that Army was held back in the force of the powerful influences urging its action were based upon knowledge of this fact remains a matter of opinion, but that the effect of alienating this Army from the people of the country, weakening if not destroying all sympathy & affiliation between it and the States which put it into the field, quenching all its enthusiasm & educating it to fight for individuals & not for principles or for Government, has been fully accomplished, no man who has served with the Army of the Potomac can fail to see, with apprehension and sorrow. The very organization of this Army was made with such a view & it is openly proclaimed by those who effected it, that it was designed to put an end to all State notions or local ties & to make a consolidated Army aside from popular influence or from local <hr /> responsibility. You will remember that the first proposition was to make a "Grand National Union Army" where States should not appear in the organization. That instead of the 10th Regt from Illinois we should have the 100th U.S. Infantry, instead of the 16th Massachusetts we should have then 90th U.S. Infantry &c. & that the promotions should be made as in the regular Army. By this time if such an organization had been adopted, we should have had a regiment from Illinois commanded by a Col (perhaps) from New Jersey, a Lieut Col. from Maine, a Major from Missouri & Captains & Lieutenants from every State of the Union. All local ties and attachments, all responsibility of every kind to the people who sent them forth would have been lost & we should now have had a great machine subject only to the order of its Commander. Fortunately & wisely Congress refused its assent but the nearest approach has been made to such an organization that was possible. It is & has been a fixed rule in the Potomac Army not to put two regiments from the same state into one Brigade so that as <hr /> that army now stands the regiments composing it have completely lost their identity. They belong not to Massachusetts or Illinois or Ohio but to the 1st Brigade, of the 2nd Division, of the 5th Army Corps. It is the reputation of a certain Brigade made up from every where that they fight, not for the State or the community which sent them to the field. Once destroy the local ties & attachments of the members of any military force & the sense of responsibility for their action to their friends & neighbors and you have taken the first step (and it is a long one) towards consolidation under military rule. The centrifugal force which exists such consolidation is to be found in the State pride, the local attachments & the influences of friends & home. You know that in the West we have understood and acted upon this principle. Whether the persistence with which the opposite course has been insisted on by the military authorities in the Potomac, has been an error of judgement or the result of well understood purpose, every man is at liberty to think as he pleases. Whatever the intention the result has been accomplished and we see in <hr /> the history of the past few weeks, and the action of the Administration under Military clamor the worst consequences of such a State of things. Whether it has been deliberately planned or not, it must be controlled or destroyed now or evil days are upon us. Let me be distinctly understood. Our Government and our Institutions must at all hazards be preserved & this Rebellion put down. No half way measures will answer for this purpose. We must make war, with this sole & only purpose & we must use all means, whether black or white to accomplish this object. War means desolation and death, and it is neither humanity nor wisdom to carry it as upon any other theory. The more bitter it is made to the delinquents the sooner it will end. Whilst the laws of war are to be carefully & strictly observed, they surely need no lenient modifications when we [illegible] or traitors who seek to destroy our Government & plunge millions of our people unto all the horrors of anarchy and political disintegration. Every thing that stands in the <hr /> way of such a war must be set aside or [overturned?]. We must preserve the Govt. pure and undefiled or we are lost as a people. It is not alone the rebels in arms we are to contend against. We must also meet and overcome thousands of enemies among ourselves. We must detect & check at the very outset abuses which arise necessarily under such a state of things as now exists in this country. Among our most fearful dangers is the rapid [illegible] of the military [power?], and as thousands of instances in History have made manifest to us, the gradual submission of our civil Government, by undue influence of military factions & leaders. The continuance of the influence which now prevails at Washington threatens our Government far more than the Rebels in arms. It is the [illegible] [dangers?] that it represents the interest in this country most favorable to Southern traitors. It represents inaction or war so mild & peaceable as not to merit the name. It represents the expenditure of untold wealth, & the indefinite prolongation of hostilities. With these follow necessarily increased control of the <hr /> military over the Civil Departments, increased separation from their homes & home feelings and influences of the great hosts of men sent forth to fight for our Government; increased danger of the utter demoralization of our people and finally danger if not certainly of the final overthrow of our liberties by the very armies we marshalled for their defense. We must make, quick vigorous & aggressive war upon the Enemy, equally speedy & vigorous war upon the Pretorian factions which now threaten our destruction by undermining and corrupting the Administration of the Government. Forever come & destroy utterly the malign military influences which war render honor & duty a [illegible] & reproach, which paralyze the army of the Patriotic soldier, which seek personal & not national ends, which point plainly in every action to concession & not punishment, should be the first and great mission of your convention. The people are right and true. The Administration designs to be so but is controlled through fear of the fall of the Capital, by influences which threaten to withdraw support unless their clamors <hr /> are complied with. In what respect does our present condition differ from the signs which have always preceded the dissolution of a Govt.? How long will it be before the military factions (as in a thousand past instances in History) demand another ruler and then another until the seat of Washington shall be occupied by a military despot. Or by a creature of the military power. It is against this danger we now need most protection. The occurrences of the past few weeks must make the danger plain to you. A [man?] high [illegible] & command, charged with offences the basest the most criminal and most dangerous to his country, whose crime if not fully known, in all its enormity, is fully believed by the Administration cannot be tried is removed from his command as consequence of threats of the military factions in his interest, not to fight for the Government in its time of danger. This is our enemy & upon this enemy first of all I urge you to war to the death. If it be not destroyed before it is too strong our Government and our liberties are gone from us for ever. Very truly yours Jno Pope Hon Richard Yates Gov of Ills. <hr /> Maj. Genl. John Pope St. Paul. Sept. 21 - 62 Private Important! <hr /> State of Illinois Executive Department Springfield 186__ Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/bff135650506dea10e61877705d608c6.pdf 9338d5850f80e0ad52d3db711edb9758 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Ills Sep 19th 1862 Dear Sir. Under the law you and all other citizens of the U S both white and black are entitled to protection of person and property. Any interference with a colored person, which is intended to hinder him from living and laboring wherever he can get wages and support himself is illegal and revolutionary. A contest with one's neighbors is to be deprecated and avoided , but justice and the public welfare often demand some one with courage and discretion, who will for a time allow himself to become odious, that truth through his efforts to defend himself may have an opportunity to combat and conquer prejudice and error. Should you receive orders from unauthorized persons to leave your own premises, you would take <hr /> measures to defend yourself. Those whom you employ have a perfect right to do the same thing. The magistrates and other peace officers of your county-and if they refuse, or are unable to protect you-the Governor of the State is bound to protect you by the military power of the State. I hope you will have no cause to appeal to the last resort-force, but were I in your place, it seems to me I should suit myself in employing labor, and try to be ready for emergencies of every sort. Yours Truly E A Lawson Esq Beardstown Ills <hr /> E A Lawson Beardstown File this-Do not send it Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource E. A. Lawson to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-09-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509864 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Jacksonville Ills Sep 19th 1862 Dear Sir. Under the law you and all other citizens of the U S both white and black are entitled to protection of person and property. Any interference with a colored person, which is intended to hinder him from living and laboring wherever he can get wages and support himself is illegal and revolutionary. A contest with one's neighbors is to be deprecated and avoided , but justice and the public welfare often demand some one with courage and discretion, who will for a time allow himself to become odious, that truth through his efforts to defend himself may have an opportunity to combat and conquer prejudice and error. Should you receive orders from unauthorized persons to leave your own premises, you would take <hr /> measures to defend yourself. Those whom you employ have a perfect right to do the same thing. The magistrates and other peace officers of your county-and if they refuse, or are unable to protect you-the Governor of the State is bound to protect you by the military power of the State. I hope you will have no cause to appeal to the last resort-force, but were I in your place, it seems to me I should suit myself in employing labor, and try to be ready for emergencies of every sort. Yours Truly E A Lawson Esq Beardstown Ills <hr /> E A Lawson Beardstown File this-Do not send it Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/fbddddacbbe12d6a5323dfbf14724da0.pdf 74ba0e6689367c54be41a42ec06c2106 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Springfield Ills. Sept. 6.1862 Gen J. M. Tuttle Cairo. I have ordered Col Dolliers to report to you immediately. and have directed arms to be sent from here Rich. Yates Governor Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates to James M. Tuttle Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-09-06 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509863 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Springfield Ills. Sept. 6.1862 Gen J. M. Tuttle Cairo. I have ordered Col Dolliers to report to you immediately. and have directed arms to be sent from here Rich. Yates Governor Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/da6bc6382dfed62b70df5ee68e791be4.pdf 5ecb596c6695aa7a68afbc7f77927948 Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Apr 2 1862 Col. Francis Sherman Chicago Ill Dear Sir The complaints from Chicago by letter and telegraph against your being Colonel of the 2nd Board of Trade are very numerous-and I have suffered very much in public estimation there by reason of our said [illegible] that I was trying to force you on to the Regt. I have given you and your father good evidence of my disposition to serve you notwithstanding all the clamor against me in your behalf. Now while I do not wish to back down from anything I said to you, yet I was assured by your father and others in a dispatch, that it would be perfectly satisfactory to the 3rd Reg. & to him for you to have the command of the 3rd Now I have been generous to you should you not be so to me and not subject me to so much opposition when you could have relieved me by the change? Please to let me hear from you immediately and oblige Yours truly R. Y. <hr /> Apr 2 1862 copy Governor Yates to Frank Sherman Col Sept 2 requesting S to abandon IId Reg Board of Trade and take IIId Org troops Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates to Francis Sherman Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-09-02 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509862 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Apr 2 1862 Col. Francis Sherman Chicago Ill Dear Sir The complaints from Chicago by letter and telegraph against your being Colonel of the 2nd Board of Trade are very numerous-and I have suffered very much in public estimation there by reason of our said [illegible] that I was trying to force you on to the Regt. I have given you and your father good evidence of my disposition to serve you notwithstanding all the clamor against me in your behalf. Now while I do not wish to back down from anything I said to you, yet I was assured by your father and others in a dispatch, that it would be perfectly satisfactory to the 3rd Reg. & to him for you to have the command of the 3rd Now I have been generous to you should you not be so to me and not subject me to so much opposition when you could have relieved me by the change? Please to let me hear from you immediately and oblige Yours truly R. Y. <hr /> Apr 2 1862 copy Governor Yates to Frank Sherman Col Sept 2 requesting S to abandon IId Reg Board of Trade and take IIId Org troops Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/0078465034051080c2b55445be4a98e3.pdf 99a57762d80e3e2abd1e16398029e5fc Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. State of Illinois Executive Department Springfield Sept 2, 1862 Major Gen Wright Louisville Ky One Regiment armed and clothed is now en route via Indianapolis for Louisville -- another will certainly leave to-morrow night -- I have ordered fifteen Regiments including those two to leave immediately . Six of them will be armed from arms now here and Gen Ketchum informs me arms will be here to follow them immediately -- Eleven of them have at last been mustered - but few of them paid- or at all provided for. Our <hr /> State has been shamefully treated -- and now we have considerably over the 50,000 troops who with fair treatment might be at your service -- It is extremely mortifying to receive your pressing dispatches for help, and to feel that our noble State so ready and so prompt for want of proper response of the Government in mustering officers, pay musters clothing -- arms etc would seem to be called for in vain Rich Yates Governor <hr /> Sept 2, 1862 Copy Dispatched Gov. to Gen Wright Has ordered 15 Regts to report to him at Louisville immediately Sept 2/62 [illegible] troops Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates to Horatio G. Wright Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-09-02 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509861 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. State of Illinois Executive Department Springfield Sept 2, 1862 Major Gen Wright Louisville Ky One Regiment armed and clothed is now en route via Indianapolis for Louisville -- another will certainly leave to-morrow night -- I have ordered fifteen Regiments including those two to leave immediately . Six of them will be armed from arms now here and Gen Ketchum informs me arms will be here to follow them immediately -- Eleven of them have at last been mustered - but few of them paid- or at all provided for. Our <hr /> State has been shamefully treated -- and now we have considerably over the 50,000 troops who with fair treatment might be at your service -- It is extremely mortifying to receive your pressing dispatches for help, and to feel that our noble State so ready and so prompt for want of proper response of the Government in mustering officers, pay musters clothing -- arms etc would seem to be called for in vain Rich Yates Governor <hr /> Sept 2, 1862 Copy Dispatched Gov. to Gen Wright Has ordered 15 Regts to report to him at Louisville immediately Sept 2/62 [illegible] troops Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/85229a6cd79962a2b44129b475769996.pdf eef962995416200cd7c3e9b8c95e9cbf Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Some of our best citizens are being sadly prejudiced against Pres Lincoln and Sec Stanton by its infamous howlings. Its readers here in the country are really semi-rebels made so by its teachings. Tens of thousands would petition to have it wiped out. Would it be best to do it? or is it best under all the circumstances to quietly tolerate the vile thing for a while longer? A. J. Grover P.S. Your letter to the President, published in the Chicago Tribune of this date is the right thing at the right time. All but the readers of the Times hail it with enthusiasm. Why is not the Times surprised? It is doing infinite mischief among the people. <hr /> Ansd Sept 1 62 A. J. Grover Sep 1 Complimentary to Gov Yates for Lincoln letter Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A. J. Grover to Richard Yates Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-09-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509860 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. Some of our best citizens are being sadly prejudiced against Pres Lincoln and Sec Stanton by its infamous howlings. Its readers here in the country are really semi-rebels made so by its teachings. Tens of thousands would petition to have it wiped out. Would it be best to do it? or is it best under all the circumstances to quietly tolerate the vile thing for a while longer? A. J. Grover P.S. Your letter to the President, published in the Chicago Tribune of this date is the right thing at the right time. All but the readers of the Times hail it with enthusiasm. Why is not the Times surprised? It is doing infinite mischief among the people. <hr /> Ansd Sept 1 62 A. J. Grover Sep 1 Complimentary to Gov Yates for Lincoln letter Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20 https://chroniclingillinois.org/files/original/1a142948bf8523bfcf38c7455d9fc806.pdf 9c769b0717aefc1a107d54c2d185ccbb Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. State of Illinois Executive Department Springfield Augt 29th 1862 Hon. E. M. Stanton Secretary of War Sir: I desire to call your attention to a serious difficulty in this State respecting the appointment of Surgeons. The Homeopathic School of Physicians are very numerous and influential. They include many most intelligent and Scientific practitioners, and are patronized by many of the most respectable and worthy class of our fellow citizens. Our Medical Board being composed entirely of Alopathists refuses to examine or pass upon an applicant of the system. Thus many able physicians are turned away and their friends <hr /> in and out of the army, disappointed. I hardly know what suggestion to make in order to remedy this evil. You may have been called upon from other states, and made some provision for such cases, if not, I ask your special consideration of the subject, and early reply. I am <hr /> Copy of 1 Secretary of War Sept 1/62 Homeopathic M.D.s as Surgeons Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers, Box 1, Folder 13 (September-December 1862) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Yates to Edwin Stanton Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-08-29 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 509859 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Language A language of the resource en Scripto Manages transcriptions of items and files Transcription A written representation of a document or a page. State of Illinois Executive Department Springfield Augt 29th 1862 Hon. E. M. Stanton Secretary of War Sir: I desire to call your attention to a serious difficulty in this State respecting the appointment of Surgeons. The Homeopathic School of Physicians are very numerous and influential. They include many most intelligent and Scientific practitioners, and are patronized by many of the most respectable and worthy class of our fellow citizens. Our Medical Board being composed entirely of Alopathists refuses to examine or pass upon an applicant of the system. Thus many able physicians are turned away and their friends <hr /> in and out of the army, disappointed. I hardly know what suggestion to make in order to remedy this evil. You may have been called upon from other states, and made some provision for such cases, if not, I ask your special consideration of the subject, and early reply. I am <hr /> Copy of 1 Secretary of War Sept 1/62 Homeopathic M.D.s as Surgeons Status The current transcription status of a document or a page. Complete Percent Completed The percentage of pages with Completed status. 100 Weight A 6-digit number used to sort items quickly. 20